van Langenberg DR, Yelland GW, et al. Cognitive impairment in Crohn’s disease is associated with systemic inflammation, symptom burden and sleep disturbance. United European Gastroenterology Journal 2017; 5(4):579587. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease may suffer from cognitive dysfunction in addition to symptoms of diarrhoea and abdominal pain. Common complaints include impaired concentr...

A 40-year-old woman had been diagnosed with Crohns disease in September 1994, but later examinations revealed a primary T-cell lymphoma of the colon. Colonoscopic and histological examination showed ulcerative lesions simulating Crohns disease involving the entire colon and the terminal ileum, and she was first diagnosed as having Crohns disease. Differential therapeutic strategies, including c...

Among 34 children diagnosed to have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) over past 8 years, 23 had Crohns disease and 11 had ulcerative colitis. Pediatric patients accounted for 7% of new cases of IBD seen annually. Median delay in diagnosis was 15 months. Nutritional impairment was significantly more common in Crohns disease.

use of serologic tests in crohns disease. clinical perspective in gastroenterology

Actinomycosis is a slowly progressive chronic granulomatous bacterial infection caused by an anaerobic gram-positive bacillus: Actinomyces Israeli.Thinking about thisdiagnosis in the right iliac fossa uncommonas it usually shows through clinical aspect of acute appendicitis, Crohns disease or even tumor ileocolic region. We report case young female patient admitted for pain and palpable mass, m...

A 28 year old male was diagnosed with moderate severe colonic and perianal Crohns disease commenced on combination therapy adalimumab azathioprine

We here report a case of a young man who presented to his general practitioner with diarrhea. Inflammatory bowel disease was suspected and a colonoscopy showed aphthous lesions suggestive of Crohns' disease but biopsies revealed eggs of Enterobius vermicularis. When treated for this parasite, his symptoms were alleviated and a followup colonoscopy revealed a normal colon and distal ileum. Enter...

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic inflammatory disorders, including Crohns’ disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), both characterized by a clinical relapsing course an immune-mediated pathogenesis [...]